Chapter 503: Empress Xiao's Experience
Although Luoyang is still being repaired, Yang Tong can't wait to bring his family to reunite, and he is accompanied by the families of hundreds of civil and military officials, who have arrived in a hurry for ten days.
"Meet the Imperial Grandmother and Queen Mother!"
The Great Sui is known as the spirit and arrogance of 'men have gold under their knees', even if they kneel, they only kneel to the sky and kneel to the elders, and the subjects only need to bow down when facing the emperor. As the emperor, Yang Tong was in the main hall of the palace at the moment, and he was willing to kneel and kowtow to his elders one by one.
"Dong'er, please get up quickly!" After Yang Tong finished the ceremony, Xiao Hou, who had tears in his eyes, left his seat and helped his beloved grandson up with his own hands, if it weren't for her grandson to turn the tide, Da Sui would have been finished long ago, although the world has not yet been completely unified, but she firmly believes that this day will not be too late.
Yang Tong stood up and returned to his seat, seeing that the atmosphere was a little sad, he asked, "The imperial grandmother and queen mother have traveled a long way, and they have worked hard all the way!" ”
Empress Xiao understood Yang Tong's thoughts, and said with a smile: "We took a carriage all the way to Ji County, changed to a dragon boat, and changed back to the carriage when we arrived at Yanshi. ”
Yang Tong said seriously: "Actually, I am similar to playing in the mountains and rivers, since I left Yecheng, I have not fought a battle!" Whenever I put on my armor and prepare to go out, the enemy falls, don't you think? ”
Empress Xiao, Empress Dowager Liu and Empress Dowager Wei were amused by him, and they all laughed out loud!
After a while, Empress Xiao stared at Yang Tong kindly: "Dong'er, it's not that the imperial grandmother is nosy, now you are not the emperor's grandson, but the emperor who is the king of a country." The emperor, when he sits in the center and oversees the country's affairs, he should not charge into battle like a fierce general, Xiang Yu is powerful, powerful, he is the invincible overlord of Chu, but why was he defeated by Liu Bang, who is weaker than him and does not know martial arts? It is because the hero who dominates the world needs a vision that includes the world, a superhuman strategy, and a mind that knows how to make good use of people and tolerates people. Instead of trying to turn things around with personal courage! ”
"The emperor's grandmother taught me well, in fact, Uncle Gongren also said about this problem, if it is not necessary in the future, I will not go to the battlefield! First, I, the emperor, cannot afford to lose. Yang Tong smiled, "Second, if the enemies are all defeated by me, the generals will have no chance to be famous in the world and go down in history, which is not good." ”
"Okay, good, Dong'er has really grown up!" Empress Xiao said with relief.
Yang Tong said embarrassedly: "Imperial grandmother, I have long been the father of several children!" ”
Empress Dowager Liu said angrily: "Even if you are the grandfather of several grandchildren, you are also the grandson of the queen mother, my son!" ”
"The queen mother said so much that I was speechless."
"That's what it was!" Empress Xiao smiled.
At this time, Jiang Fengyi walked in and saluted: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager!" The queen led the concubines, princes, princes, and princesses in the palace to meet! ”
After Yang Tong visited the elders, it was the turn of the queen's daughters and children to worship him, which was a ritual system and practice, although Yang Tong sometimes felt cumbersome, but he was not disgusted by these good ceremonies, and vigorously promoted and advocated. He came from an era of serious collapse of the moral system, and knew that these beautiful traditions were the most precious treasures and essence of a nation.
"Let them all in." Yang Tong pretended to be calm and said.
"Whoa!"
After a while, Wei Fengwu, Shui Tianji, Eldest Sun Wuji, Li Xiuning, Lu Qinghua, and Xiao Yuexian walked into the spacious main hall with their children!
"Meet the Holy One, the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager!"
"Flat!"
"Thank you!"
Yang Tong smiled and nodded, and his eyes moved from his wives to the children.
"Meet my father......" Yang Tong only has five children, from the oldest to the youngest, they are Yang Xifang, Yang Hui, Yang Zheng, Yang Wan, Yang Rong, seeing his father who has been absent for a long time, they are all so excited that their faces are flushed, and they seem to salute!
"Come here! Let my father hug ......"
Yang Tong was overjoyed, hugged a few children one by one, and asked with a smile: "Is it fun along the way?" ”
"Father, it's the most fun to ride in a big boat! Fang'er still wants to sit. Yang Xianfang seemed to be unsatisfied, and her little face was so excited that she blushed, and she was cute.
Yang Tong said with a smile: "It's too simple to take a boat, Ziwei City has a big Yao Pond, and there are Penglai Sanxian Island on it, and there are usually swans and cranes flying in." Later, my father asked him to build a big boat and put it in Yaochi, so that Fang'er could sleep and read on it! ”
Yang Xifang's eyes immediately widened: "Really? ”
Yang Tong smiled: "It's true! ”
"Father, I want it too, I want a big ship ......"
"It's all there, is it okay to have one for one person?"
"Good, good!"
"Don't spoil them."
Seeing the children who broke their work in an instant, Wei Fengwu was speechless, and finally taught the little guy some etiquette, but as soon as he arrived at their father's place, he immediately forgot about it.
The children didn't care about this, and they talked nonsense.
"Father, when will the big ship be built?"
"Where is Ziwei City?"
"Is Yaochi bigger than our family's Shenwu Lake?"
“……”
Several children shouted excitedly, one question after another, Yang Tong also patiently replied one by one, and the whole hall echoed with the joyful laughter of the children.
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It was late at night, and the candle flame in the dormitory had not been extinguished, and at this time, a stunning jade man leaned on Yang Tong's arms, gentle as water......
"Husband!" Xiao Wu looked at her husband who was connected to her, and the tenderness in her eyes was even worse!
"Huh?" Yang Tong supported his wife's body with both hands and squeezed himself, as if he wanted to rub her into his body, and no longer distinguish between them.
"I hate it!" Xiao Wujiao snorted, "I have something serious to say." ”
"Say it!"
"You are like this, how can I say it?"
"I don't interject... You say I'll listen... To each his own! Don't interfere with each other! ”
The sound of "......" like a flute echoed in the room.
Long!
In smooth water!
Yang Tong looked at his wife with an indignant face strangely, and the banter in his eyes did not change: "I don't interject, why don't I speak?" ”
"Faint King!" Xiao Wu's tone showed a deep sense of dissatisfaction.
"Boom!" The sound of the ground moving and the bed shaking again
"If you do it again, I folded it, do you believe it?"
Xiao Wu's slightly plump body was drenched in sweat, and she collapsed in Yang Tong's arms weakly, her pretty face was dyed with a layer of red, and her rippling eyes were half-open and half-closed, gradually becoming blurred, just like the vast sea, but the pride contained in it could not be concealed.
"You won......" Yang Tong turned over and dismounted.
"I'm serious with you!" Under the candlelight, Xiao Wuxiu frowned slightly, and said to Yang Tong: "Husband, when I entered the city, I saw a lot of construction in Luoyang, why is this?" ”
"Luoyang was seriously damaged after the battle of Tang and Zheng, and it was repaired, and even the Ziwei Palace was also rebuilt."
"This ......" Xiao Wu didn't speak for a long time, looked up at her husband with a fiery red face, blinked her hazy phoenix eyes, and finally sighed faintly: "Husband, although the Great Sui Dynasty is in the same lineage, except for the same name, it is actually different!" The old Sui has been buried in the Jiangdu Palace fire, and our new Sui is the husband inch by inch of the country, today everything contains the blood, sweat and life of the husband and many loyal martyrs, I am afraid that the husband will become extravagant, I hope you are still as diligent and thrifty as before! It can make the children always be proud of their father's achievements as they are today, not some Yao Chi and big boats. ”
Yang Tong was very moved by his wife's advice, kissed his wife's soft lips, and said seriously: "What happened to the emperor's grandfather is a lesson from the past, and I know the consequences of failure very well!" Don't worry, I won't forget my original intention, Yang Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said, our Great Sui is not bad for money, the three countries in the country do not farm, do not produce, and the imperial court can afford it! You don't have to worry about the treasury at all! ”
"With tens of millions of people in the Great Sui, the imperial court can actually afford to raise them for three years? Where do we get so much money to feed? "Xiao Wu's brain is short-circuited.
"Won the war!"
"Fighting a war is not gambling, can you still win money? I can't imagine it! Xiao Wu looked incredible!
"If you win the battle, you will be able to receive the enemy's military rations and raid the enemy's lair, won't the money come?"
Xiao Wu understood, and asked again: "But what does this have to do with repairing Luoyang and repairing the palace?" ”
"Luoyang has been in war for many years, and the displaced people are everywhere, if the imperial court has been relieved, it will make these people breed lazy hearts for nothing, so there is the birth of work for relief, this method can solve the food and clothing of the displaced people, and will not make people lazy, but also dredge the river, return to the embankment, and strengthen the defense of the city wall!"
Xiao Wu said angrily: "You bite your hands with a lot of money, and you want to fund those people when you see that they are pitiful, but if you give them money directly, it will not only hurt their self-esteem, but also fear that they will become lazy, and they want to get it for nothing all day long, so you let them get the money through their work, so that they can be at ease, and they will not be lazy, and they can also repair Luoyang and the palace, which is the same as asking for a long time, so long-winded." ”
Yang Tong found that he said it in the middle of the night, but it was not as clear as Xiao Wu's words, he stayed for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "Yes, that's it!" ”
"Earlier, I'm worried all day!"
"......" Yang Tong was angry and funny, and he loved this simple and lovely wife.
"And yes!" Xiao Wu said again: "No matter what Yuexian says, she is also the few relatives left by the imperial grandmother, and you don't give people a name after a long time!" ”
Yang Tong suddenly said: "If you don't say it, I forgot about it!" Tomorrow, let's make her Zhaoyi. ”
"Where are you going to put the face of the imperial grandmother?"
"The first and fourth concubines are customized, and you and Concubine Wu, Concubine Xian, Concubine Li, and Concubine Shu are just enough! If you don't call her Zhaoyi, is it a girl? ”
Xiao Wu hesitated for a long time and said, "Do you want to set up a concubine?" ”
"Don't even think about it! Daydreaming! ”
The grade of the concubine has always been below the queen, among women, the concubine is under one person, above ten thousand people, this thing because of its unique status, at every turn with a higher status to oppress the concubine, or unite a group of concubines, to challenge the queen, has always been the most unstable existence in the palace, even if Yang Tong really set up a concubine, only Shui Tianji, who has worked hard, has this qualification!
In terms of background, Xiao Yuexian is the daughter of a thief; In terms of merit and contribution to the Great Sui, she is not as good as one billionth of Shui Tianji; In terms of feelings, it is far better to follow Yang Tong's eldest grandson Wujian and Li Xiuning early and crown her as a concubine? Why?
With her relationship with Empress Xiao?
Scold!
If her father Xiao Mo cared about her aunt Xiao, he wouldn't have rebelled against Da Sui!
Since the Xiao family is unrighteous first, why should he, Yang Tong, care about this bullshit relative?
In particular, the most unreliable in these years are relatives.
Li Yuan, Xiao Miao, Yu Wenhua and which one is not a close relative of the Great Sui royal family? Which one is not someone Yang Guang trusts? The result...... Isn't it all the other way around? Especially Li Yuan, a bastard, he would have been anti-minded earlier, but Yang Tong would have known it earlier.
"Husband!" Xiao Wu saw that Yang Tong was suddenly full of anger, and she was so frightened that she snorted.
"Tomorrow, the first and fourth concubines will be changed to the first and fifth concubines, and Xiao Yuexian will be sealed as ...... Concubine Hui"
"However, the fourth concubine is set by the saint, so it is not in accordance with the system!"
"I am the emperor, and my words are the royal law and system of the Great Sui! Whoever dared to object, Lao Tzu accepted Li Jing as the commander, appointed Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Yang Shanhui, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui as military advisors, and Yang Shidao as the grain transport officer, let Shen Guang spy on the military situation, and then ordered Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, Niu Jinda, Su Dingfang, and Xue's Five Tigers to bring the Xuanjia Army, Shurawei, Xiaoguo Army, and the Ten Legions to wipe out the nine clans of the dog's day! ”
"......" Xiao Wu laughed at her husband's 'declaration', many years of husband and wife, how can she not know what kind of person her husband is? In private, especially in front of her, the Northern Emperor, who made the princes of the world talk about his reputation, often said things that made people speechless, and now it is the best proof. However, she never said anything about her husband, just because she knew that her husband had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, but he didn't dare to show it, no matter how hard and tired he was, he had to face it with a strong appearance. Only in front of the person he trusts the most, will he show a thing or two in a strange way, and maybe he is the only one who can see Yang Tong's appearance today, right?
Her Wei Fengwu martial arts are not as good as Shui Tianji, her literary talent is not as good as Lu Qinghua, her intelligence is not as good as her eldest grandson's innocent, and her strategy is not as good as Li Xiuning, but why is she Yang Tong's most beloved and trustworthy person? One reason is that she has been with Yang Tong for the longest time and shares hardships and hardships, and the other reason is that she has never regarded Yang Tong as a high emperor or god, but like an ordinary peasant woman, she simply regards Yang Tong as her husband and the father of her children, nothing more!
Not long ago, Empress Xiao's words touched her deeply and benefited her a lot: 'When your parents are old, they will run to the beautiful fairy world, and they leave you, so they are not your closest relatives; Your children will start a family, set up their own businesses, and gradually drift away from you, and they will not be your closest relatives; Your husband is your dearest, and he will be with you all the time... He is the most precious one in your life...... In front of Emperor Wen, I am my daughter-in-law, and it is natural for my daughter-in-law to be filial to her in-laws; In front of Emperor Wu, I am a little clever wife, I will understand my husband, tolerate my husband, comfort my husband, and help my husband... Xiao Wu, you don't want to treat your husband as a high-ranking emperor, just because there are too many people who worship him, and you don't worship alone, it doesn't affect the authority of the emperor; But no matter how strong the emperor is, he is also a human being, and if he is a human being, he has joys, sorrows, and sorrows, however, the world regards the emperor as a god, so he is lonely, in fact, the emperor also needs relatives and friends! But no one dared to be the emperor's relatives and friends! If there is a person who sincerely regards the emperor as a relative and friend, then he will cherish it a hundred times and repay it a thousand times. ’
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